Mother charged with murder of newborn baby girl

A 24-year-old woman who was arrested in January on suspicion of abandoning the body of her newborn baby girl has also been charged with her murder.

Police said Yumi Jitsuhara, a part-time worker, has admitted to killing the infant and quoted her as saying she had no confidence she could take care of a baby, Fuji TV reported. She also told police she didn’t know who the father was and that she had started thinking about killing the baby when she found out she was pregnant in September.

Police said Jitsuhara told them she gave birth on Dec 8 while alone in her room in the share house in Higashi-Ikebukuro where she had been living for about three years. She placed tape over the infant’s nose and mouth, wrapped the corpse in a towel and placed it in a plastic bag in a closet.

Jitsuhara left the share house on Jan 19 after failing to pay her rent. One of the other occupants noticed a foul odor and found the baby’s remains in the closet.

Police arrested Jitsuhara on Jan 20 and initially charged her with abandoning a body but upgraded the charge to murder after Jitsuhara told them the baby was alive when born and that she had suffocated the child.

Feb. 10
05:21 pm JST

She didn’t have confidence to take care of a baby? There are many alternatives. There are many organizations that could help find a new home for your baby. Newborns make the perfect adoption candidate. That is just one widely available and widely used option.

Feb. 10
05:50 pm JST

Feb. 10
06:14 pm JST

quoted her as saying she had no confidence she could take care of a baby, Fuji TV reported. She also told police she didn’t know who the father was and that she had started thinking about killing the baby when she found out she was pregnant in September

Didnt know who the father was? Just how many partners did this trout have nine months before the birth? I think this is an outright lie to protect the real father.

If she wanted to kill th baby she should have had an abortion.

In rhe US she is trailer trash. In Australia she is a bogan. In Japan she is a chimpira. They are all drains on society.

Feb. 11
07:23 am JST

Feb. 11
07:51 am JST

Do you know that a woman has to have the fathers’ PERMISSION on PAPER to have an abortion in Japan?

Let that sink in for a moment.

Let THIS sink in for a moment, THIS IS BLATANTLY FALSE INFORMATION! Consent is NOT needed from the father!

Consent from either the woman or her spouse is needed to carry out a termination. If the woman is mentally impaired consent may be granted by her guardian. The woman's consent is not required if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Feb. 11
08:31 am JST

Sad, sad story. I fear another child didn't get a fair chance at life because of this woman's fear of social stigma, something, when viewed here in the context of my image vs. my child's, is put as a priority.

Even sadder is that this all could've been prevented if she or her partner had of just thought of protecting themselves via condoms/contraceptives. Im all for having fun, but safety is/should be paramount. The unknown 'father' is at just as much fault as she is.

Feb. 11
04:49 pm JST

And so many wonder why the population in Japan is dwindling perhaps one reason is because so many women kill their babies. Sad that she did not seek financial help from the government or her parents, I'm sure they would have loved to have a Grandchild instead now they have a murder of a daughter. R.I.P. little one.